The top aftermarket NYSE Losers Tuesday were: Fusion-io, Rock-Tenn, Quest Diagnostics, Cemex SAB, Williams Partners, Petrobras Argentina, Williams-Sonoma, Norfolk Souther and Advanced Micro Devices.
About one in five workers around the globe, particularly employees in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia, telecommute frequently and nearly 10 percent work from home every day, according to a new Ipsos/Reuters poll.
Canada-based Pan American Silver Corp. said Monday it will pay about $1.5 billion in a cash and stock to buy Minefinders Corp. Ltd., which owns a huge silver mine in northern Mexico, among other mining assets.
The world economy will lose momentum in 2012 but it will keep moving in the right direction, according to Reuters polls of around 600 economists who said crisis-hit Europe would drag on global growth.
The world economy will lose momentum in 2012 but it will keep moving in the right direction, according to Reuters polls of around 600 economists who said crisis-hit Europe would drag on global growth.
The founder of a French company at the heart of an international health scandal acknowledged on Wednesday that he had used unapproved silicone in breast implants, but said France's recommendation for women to have them removed was criminal.
Former England captain David Beckham agreed to a new contract with the MLS Champs.
LONDON, Jan 17 - The downgrade of much of Europe's credit ratings demonstrates in perhaps the bluntest terms so far the collapse of any lingering -- if lazy -- assumptions that developed states are somehow safer than emerging counterparts.
LONDON, Jan 17 - The downgrade of much of Europe's credit ratings demonstrates in perhaps the bluntest terms so far the collapse of any lingering -- if lazy -- assumptions that developed states are somehow safer than emerging counterparts.
A stranded Russian science satellite, loaded with rocket fuel for a roundtrip mission to Mars, is expected to plunge back to Earth on Sunday, but officials said on Friday they don't know when or where it will hit.
Russia said on Thursday said it was expecting debris from its failed Mars probe to fall to earth from Sunday to Monday, but added it could not be sure of the exact crash site.
Hedge funds are positioning to profit from a plan to slash Greece's towering debt pile as Athens enters final talks that could sway the country's membership of the euro.
Here's an economic riddle of sorts: Which economy grew faster over the last seven years? A) President Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, famous for its forced nationalizations and 21st century socialism, or B) Chile, long renowned as a capitalist paradise for investors.
French footballer Eric Cantona said on Tuesday that he had launched a bid to join the 2012 presidential race. If serious (which it isn't) he would compete against incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist candidate Francois Hollande in April.
Messi is the first-ever player to win the FIFA Player of the Year award three-straight years.
The times and trends are always changing, and some benefit consumers while others do not. But the shopping Web site dealnews did a good job in recent days noting things that will be less expensive and more expensive in 2012. Among the items that will get cheaper in 2012, according to dealnews, is wine and homes.
Hip-hop artists sing about it, a famous housewife sells it and the wine world is abuzz about Moscato, a sweet, lightly fizzy drink that is the biggest thing to hit the wine business since White Zinfandel.
Gov. Soria and his wife, Susana, were reportedly in their bedroom early Sunday after spending New Year's Eve at their home in General Roca, according to authorities. Emergency personnel received a call and arrived at the home just before 5 a.m., local media reported. Gov. Soria was found bleeding in bed, yet alive. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Hugo Chavez says that the United States could be responsible his cancer and the cancer of other South American leaders. Castro warned him.
Fernandez, 58, will undergo an operation on January 4.
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has thyroid cancer and will undergo surgery next month, her government said Tuesday, adding that the cancerous cells had not spread.
In what may be considered the closest real-life case of the movie Snakes on a Plane, a Czechoslovakian man was stopped from boarding a transatlantic flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Madrid, Spain for trafficking 247 animals, including five-foot venomous yarara snakes, in his suitcase, according to Agence France-Presse.
